06 May 2013

Political activist, scholar, and author Angela Y. Davis made history when she "became the third woman to be place on the F.B.I.'s list of the 10 most- wanted fugitives," the New York Timesreported in 1970.

Last week's addition of former Black Panther Assata Shakur to that same "Most Wanted Terrorist List" exemplifies the "longstanding 'racialization' of terrorism" in the United States and an attempt to discourage young Black and Latino activists, Davis told Democracy Now!

"The FBI has decided to focus particularly on Black women. They fear that the movement will continue to grow particularly with the leadership and involvement of Black women. I was rendered an ideological target in the same vein that Assata Shakur was called 'The Mother Hen' of the Black Liberation Army."

"Before the Tsarnev brothers were discovered to be the alleged
perpetrators [of the Boston Marathon bombings], there was an attempt to
present the person who planted the bomb as either a black man or a dark
skinned man with a hoodie. This racialization of what is represented as
terrorism is an attempt to bring the old-style racism into the
conversation with modes of repression in the 21st century."

Davis was accused of murder after allegedly purchasing the firearms used in the infamous August 1970 hostage abduction attempt by the "Soledad Brothers" in northern California. The judge, one of the jurors, the prosecutor and the three Black men were killed in the shootout. Davis was later exonerated by an all-white jury.

20 September 2010

Undoubtedly you remember Mehcad Brooks' first, second and third rounds of ab- and bulge-worthy underwear adverts for Calvin Klein. Brooks, Kellan Lutz, Fernando Verdasco, and Hidetoshi Nakata return in a new campaign for CK's Elements brand, more bulging briefs AFTER THE JUMP ...

27 March 2010

If it wasn't already obvious that the muscles of ridiculously hot Calvin Klein underwear models Mehcad Brooks and Hidetoshi Nakata are cut and bulging, the new full page ad campaign spotted in the April GQ is further proof that both men are indeed "cut". Huge scans of Fernando Verdasco and Kellan Lutz AFTER THE JUMP ...